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[Bookplate]

Black on beige paper, a decorative border surrounds text. Manuscript notation in purple ink in upper right.

Montréal (Québec)

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The Library of the Bar of Lower Canada, section of the district of Montreal, was founded in 1828 by William Badgley and others. For many years, Côme-Séraphin Cherrier was president of the library. Edward John Hemming inventoried and classified the documents of the library, finally publishing them in 1857 as a catalogue, together with those of the Advocate's Library, or la Bibliothèque des Avocats. The Advocate's Library, also founded in 1828, became the Library of the Bar (of Montreal) in 1840, and it is uncertain whether the Library of the Bar of Lower Canada is another name for this institution, or whether the two libraries were indeed founded in the same year as separate institutions. This bookplate is labeled particularly ambiguously. However, Thomas Murray placed it with other bookplates of the Library of the Bar of Lower Canada, and not with bookplates of the Advocate's Library, so it has been kept in the organization he devised. A similar bookplate is also available in the Philippe Masson Ex Libris Collection at McGill University.
References:
1) DeLisle, Auguste. Catalogue of the Library of the Bar of Montreal, including that of the Advocate's Library. Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1883. Open Library. http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23345200M/Catalogue_of_the_Library_of_the_Bar_of_Montreal.
2) Gibbs, Elizabeth. 'BADGLEY, WILLIAM,' in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 11, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, accessed May 1, 2014, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/badgley_william_11E.html.
3) The Lower Canada Law Journal. Vol. 1-4. Dawson Bros, 1866. http://books.google.ca/books?id=ayARAAAAYAAJ
4) Milot, Maurice. 'HEMMING, EDWARD JOHN,' in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, accessed May 1, 2014, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hemming_edward_john_13E.html.
5) Robert, Jean-Claude. 'CHERRIER, CÔME-SÉRAPHIN,' in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 11, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, accessed May 1, 2014, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cherrier_come_seraphin_11E.html
6) The Philippe Masson Ex Libris Collection at McGill University, from http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/bookplates/

RBSC Bookplates

2014

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